Wednesday, November 5th 2008
Sharkoon Introduces Flexi-Drive S2S: DIY SSD
Solid State Disks (SSDs) are all the rage these days. The robust flash based hard drives offer many advantages to typical magnetic storage solutions. Silent operation, minimal electricity requirements, almost no heat build-up and fast read/write rates. Because of their high resistance to shock and impact damage, SSDs are especially suited for mobile computers. Disadvantages include their high price and relatively low capacity--at this time capacities greater than 128GB are hard to find.
Sharkoon is now introducing an alternative that allows users to build a Notebook SSD themselves. The Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S is an SSD adaptor with the size and connections of a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive. The necessary flash memory is provided by the up to six SDHC cards that can be installed in the enclosure. Users can select the manufacturer, number, chip type (SLC or MLC) and capacity of the memory cards according to their needs.
As the installed memory cards use Raid-0, the performance and capacity of all installed cards should be the same. At this time the maximum available SDHC capacity is 32GB, allowing for a maximum of 192GB to be installed in the Flexi-Drive S2S. Testing with HD-Tune, six 8GB SDHC memory cards with Class 6 speed ratings had a read speed of 140 MB/s and a write speed of 115 MB/s.
End customers will find the Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S available immediately from authorized retailers for the suggested retail price of 79 euros.
For more information regarding the Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S, please go to Sharkoon.com.
Sharkoon is now introducing an alternative that allows users to build a Notebook SSD themselves. The Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S is an SSD adaptor with the size and connections of a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive. The necessary flash memory is provided by the up to six SDHC cards that can be installed in the enclosure. Users can select the manufacturer, number, chip type (SLC or MLC) and capacity of the memory cards according to their needs.
End customers will find the Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S available immediately from authorized retailers for the suggested retail price of 79 euros.
For more information regarding the Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S, please go to Sharkoon.com.
17 Comments on Sharkoon Introduces Flexi-Drive S2S: DIY SSD
I like!:toast:
It will always be slower and more expensive than a true SSD.
And it is fiddly to set up, not for the "average" user.
Product without a market :nutkick:
(except for one or two techie nerds like us)
Those high write speeds we see advertised on SD are for large blocks of sequential data, not for pagefile and/or "transaction" type use.
The only concern, is whether or not it would be reliable for long term use. Dont these kinds of flash technology suffer poorly from repeated use?
Check out this link how to make a £20 SSD...
www.custompc.co.uk/howtos/602646/make-your-own-ssd-for-less-than-20.html
www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10294&Itemid=1
But that does add a little interest, two of these in RAID-1, or even 3 in RAID-5, would make me feel a little more comfortable as one SD card failing wouldn't cause me to lose all my data.Not necessarily, a 16GB SD card is only $30. So if you get 4 of them, thats only $120 for 64GB. A 64GB SSD would cost your about $160, and if the numbers provided for this device are correct, the read and write speeds would be pretty similar.